Right-wing extremism is all about patience. That is, until it makes its move, and then it is sudden and explosive.

If you have to lie, cheat, steal, obstruct and bully to get your point across, it must not be a point capable of surviving on its own merits.

If only Coca-Cola had had the kind of message to accompany its addictive deliciousness that Fox News has, we'd all be speaking Cokelish today.

From the moment America went full-on industrial, it seems like it's been a steady path towards people never having to be physically present in order to satisfy their needs.

A nation is not a budget, no matter how much ideologues want it to be so.

Everything sells. Like integrity. Like democracy. Like truth. Like deeds.

A product is usually created to improve people's lives; otherwise, why buy it? I'm no genius, but I am an American, and gosh-darnit, I consume, so I know what I'm talking about.

The spectacle of insensitivity that is the gun lobby and its outspoken, out-of-their-mind apparatchiks, is the apotheosis of what the Republican Party has allowed itself to become.

I've rarely gotten a good review in my life, yet, to paraphrase Noel Coward, I am happy to console myself with the bitter palliative of commercial success.

The right-wing just loves making a big entrance.

What's hard, it seems, is living up to the words spoken by Jesus Christ, who preached naught but love and mercy and justice and humility.

As a kid, I spent every summer bent over a stack of books, obsessively writing detailed reports on each one.

Love the sea? I dote upon it--from the beach.

Human society is based on want. Life is based on want. Wild-eyed visionaries may dream of a world without need. Cloud-cuckoo-land. It can't be done.

One thing that never ceases to delight me about us women, is the friendship and support that we give each other.

Relational skills are the most important abilities in leadership.

When Fortuna spins you downward, go out to a movie and get more out of life.

That hurt querida, that really hurt

Purpose provides activation energy for living.

I have a healthy lifestyle, but there's nothing you can really do to prevent from rolling an ankle or something like that.

I myself am a very nonviolent person and only resort to violence when I absolutely have to.